Title: Export not working Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Export not working * [shirfarhad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shirfarhad/) * (@shirfarhad) * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-not-working/) * I want to edit two lines in all my posts. I have a video blog site and I’m using a FLV player. I have editted my plugin settings to resize my flash player from now and make it bigger, but because the flash player size is posted everytime in the post I need to edit all posts. * So I thought of exporting all my posts, using the new Export function and then import it, but when I click on export and Download Export File, I get a blank XML file. * I wanted to know how to solve this and if this is indeed the best solution to resolve my problem. * Thanks! Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [drmike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmike/) * (@drmike) * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-not-working/#post-557101) * Browser, browser version, and OS please. Also do you have your browser set up to launch another program when it comes to *.xml files? * I’m tempted to suggest exporting out the database myself and doing a search and replace on the file myself. Without knowing what exactly is being changed, it’s kind of hard to make an exact suggestion though. * [medical](https://wordpress.org/support/users/medical/) * (@medical) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-not-working/#post-557214) * Hello, * I have the same problem: the resulting xml file is empty. Tried it with Firefox 1.5 and IE6 on Linux. * Would appreciate any help. I just spent hours to manually update the db tables of my WP test install, just to produce that darn XML file. * I am moving my blog to wordpress.com, and I can’t access the db directly, which leaves me with this option only. * Thanks, * Sonja * UPDATE: When I leave the “Restrict Authors” field empty, the basic data (blog name, etc.) are being written to the resulting XML file. However, if I choose All or a certain author, the XML file is empty (and I mean, empty… not a single line to see). This might be a timeout problem, maybe too many posts (I have around 380 in my blog). * [kerimfriedman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kerimfriedman/) * (@kerimfriedman) * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-not-working/#post-557250) * Same problem here. I tried both Firefox and Camino on OS X. Medical’s solution worked for me – I could export my “admin” user account, but not a second user account. But it is not a issue of having too many posts – this is a very small site on which I don’t use the blog features, just “pages.” Also, the second user doesn’t work at all. I am going to go through and manually try changing all the users to be “admin” and try again… * [kerimfriedman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kerimfriedman/) * (@kerimfriedman) * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-not-working/#post-557251) * In doing this I notice that the pages in the other user’s name were created a long time ago, presumably imported or preserved from when my usernames were different. This user no longer exists, which may be what is causing the problem! * UPDATE: Still can’t do “All” after changing ownership of all posts to “admin” however, at least when I do an “admin” export I’ll be sure to have everything, and that still works. May be that the user tables are corrupted… Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Export not working’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [export](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/export/) * [flash](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/flash/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [kerimfriedman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kerimfriedman/) * Last activity: [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-not-working/#post-557251) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics